Can anyone tell me what this is?????? Shad, Small mouth, Hybrid, Striped???

another look

White perch?

Ive never heard of white bass or white perch in our area. (North Jersey)

But does look like white bass with the black fins

Compared to this website it looks like a white perch, there is a picture a couple fish down.

http://www.bigtimbercreek.org/fish_of_big_timber_creek.htm

It's scientific name is habius corpus... or something like that.    

It's a drum guys. Just about the nastiest worthless fish... second only to a grass carp.

After looking at Will's website, I think he is right. I would have called it a drum in Kansas though.

Shad was my initial thought, but I doubt that's what it is.

:-?

I've caught a few white perch and have never caught one that looked like that.It looks like an overgrown shad.

It looks identical to the picture of the white perch in will's link.  I'm sure it is.

That fish is a Notomigonus chrysoleucas, also known as a wild golden shinner. This fish occupies nearly all suitable water from the Atlantic Coast west through the Dakotas and Texas. This information was brought from a In-Fisherman magazine I had laying around. Vol. 29 No. 2 February 2004 Issue.

It's a White Perch.

We used to catch them in Mullica River, NJ., through the "ICE".

They would stack-up every winter in Collins Cove and although the water is brackish

it gets hard enough for ice fishing. However, during the change of the tide

ice-fisherman have been stranded on breakaway ice-flows almost every year :-/

Roger

I also think it's a golden shiner. I just caught one of those from a local lake on Sunday while fishing for crappie.

Golden shiners are not as laterally compressed,

they have small tapered heads and no lateral line.

Too, they usually display an overall golden hue.

WHITE PERCH

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.bigtimbercreek.org/fish_wh_perch.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.bigtimbercreek.org/fish_of_big_timber_creek.htm&h=346&w=685&sz=55&tbnid=btefCPpvEU8Z_M:&tbnh=69&tbnw=137&hl=en&start=6&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dwhite%2Bperch%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26safe%3Doff

Golden Shiner or White Perch?

There is no way it is a Golden Shiner...it's not even golden.  It is white though!  

I would have to agree with Will that it is a white perch.  It looks just like the picture in the description on the other website, a white perch.

It's white Perch guaranteed.

I gotta weigh-in with a white perch vote too.  I've caught a whole lot of those in the past.

white perch   also called dinner

I'm with Cajun, white perch let's get cookin.

That is a crappie minnow

A golden shiner has a single dorsal fin. Looks like a white perch to me.  

Jim

Looks like a white perch to me.

Ah cumon Jim, you can be more commital than that

We used to catch them by the pail-full in brackish water in New Jersey.

They have excellent flesh and I hear tell that they're sold commercially as "sea perch".

Roger

It's a drum guys. Just about the nastiest worthless fish... second only to a grass carp.

Actually, fresh water drum are good eating fish, better known as Gaspergou, they are live bait eaters, clean fish and strong fighters.

I have heard white perch in this part of the country refered to white crappie, and I always thought that white crappie and white perch are totally different.   Looking at the picture and googling everything, it looks like a white perch to me.  Reading about them, they appear to be good eating.